List of Hanoverian envoys in Russia

This is a list of the electoral and royal Hanoverian envoys at the Russian court in St. Petersburg (until 1866).

history

Between 1714 and 1837 Hanover was linked to Great Britain in a personal union and was represented diplomatically in many places by Great Britain in the 18th century ; as well as at the Russian court . At the same time, however, the Hanoverian state also gained access to the much larger foreign policy network of the United Kingdom , and was thus able to promote its relations with third countries.

Born in Hanover, Friedrich Christian Weber , from 1714 to 1719 British-Hanoverian ambassador to the Russian court of Peter the Great , contributed to the first reporting on Russia in Germany with his publications of, among others, "The changed Russia" . In the second half of the 18th century, the historian Johann Vollrath Bacmeister worked as a librarian at the Russian Academy of Sciences , and later as editor of the St. Petersburgische Zeitung .

Heads of mission

1801: Establishment of diplomatic relations

Appointment / accreditation	Recall	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited at
1801	1804	Ernst Friedrich Herbert of Munster	Count of Munster (* 1766- † 1839)	George III	Alexander I.
1804	1808		no relations as a result of the French annexation of Hanover
1808	1818	unoccupied
1818	1850	Wilhelm von Dörnberg	(* 1768; † 1850)	George III	Alexander I.
1851	1857	Alexander Thal	(* 1802; † 1886) only consular representation as hannov. Consul General	Ernst August I.	Nicholas I.
1857	1865	Georg Herbert of Munster	(* 1820- † 1902)	George V.	Alexander II
1865	1866	Victor von Alten	(* 1817; † 1891)	George V.	Alexander II

1866: End of relations as a result of the Prussian annexation of Hanover

See also

• List of German ambassadors in Russia (from 1871)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Torsten Riotte : Transfer through personal union: Great Britain-Hanover 1714-1837 In: Europäische Geschichte Online , ed. from the Institute for European History (Mainz) , 2012.
2. ^ ^{A b c d e f} Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001, p. 210 .
3. ^ Thal, Alexander in the Erik Amburger database of the Institute for East and Southeast European Research , Regensburg